The blocksize war wasn't so much about the blocksize (or, even, scaling Bitcoin). It was really about who controls the consensus rules and how we upgrade the protocol.

For context, a bunch of startups raised tons of money between 2013 and 2016 based on ridiculous user sign-up projections and then we had a long and painful bear market and they were looking for scapegoats (the developpers that were "throttling the network") to justify the lack of growth. I am thinking here specifically of Coinbase, Bitpay and Blockchain.info.

The vibe I got is that they thought of Bitcoin itself as a corporation, that they were the equivalent of Bitcoin's board of directors because they represented the interest of VC investors, and thus they were entitled to decision making power over the network.

I don't doubt that a few people were genuine about scaling p2p e-cash (e.g. Roger Ver) but I suspect what really motivated them is that they believed control of the Bitcoin network would be an asset to their business interests, and lack of control was being used as an excuse to why their interests weren't being satisfied.

There was also a bunch of developers that I believe may have been afraid of losing their relevance (Gavin and Garzik specifically). Regardless of their intentions or psychology, it seemed clear to me that the consortium of vc-backed startups (particularly Bitpay, Coinbase, blockchain(.)info and Roger) had picked a team of developers they thought they could control and wanted to appoint them as a technical management team whicn would execute their strategy, and these guys were willing to step up for that role.

I was physically in the room when the CEO of Blockchain.info (with the very obvious support of Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong) announced that Bitcoin Core devs were being fired and would be replaced. This was after a couple days of failed discussions with other industry people. This was the moment when I realized what was really going on.

And finally, you had a Bitcoin mining giant (Bitmain) controlling both asic production and mining pools with a vested interest in promoting the idea that Bitcoin was a democracy and the way to vote was to buy hashing power. The main ideology being pushed here was that a formal governance mechanism of the protocol needed to be established and that hashrate was the only objective measure of who makes decisions.

The underlying big blocker ideology was that the chaos of spontaneous consensus of nodes is unpredictable, flimsy, bad for business. The absence of a formal governance process was seen as the root cause of the issue.

These companies really believed they could control the protocol, and controlling development of the protocol was seen as a very valuable asset to your company. I imagine they thought of themselves as the founders of a new consortium that would solidify itself into a permanent institution. The business interests would pay developers and set the goals, and the mining interests would ratify their decisions with hash power voting. That was their plan.

This became blatantly obvious when Bitmain used its refusal to activate segwit as leverage to get what it wanted (a blocksize increase and recognition of its hashpower as a vote mecanism) even though Bitmain iself acknowledged it was not really opposed segwit.

It was classic traditional politics: I'll give you segwit if you give me something in return.

This is the language the VC suits, investors and tech startup people understand and they were very happy to "negotiate" and find "consensus".

This eventually materialized into the New York Agreement, negotiated literally as a backroom deal during theConsensuss shitcoin conference. I was there and I refused to attend.

This (private) meeting consecrated the alliance of startups/investors and bitcoin mining interests in their appointment of a technical management committee. If you think this sounds like Jekyll Island, you're not alone.

They packaged segwit with a blocksize increase (Segwit2x) and decided to force a hard fork as a condition to "allow" us to have Segwit.

We know the rest of the story: we ended up activating anyway via UASF (or more precisely, the miners activated Segwit after they New York Agreement signatories became scared UASF would lead to a chain split which they were going to lose). And the blocksize increase was also abandoned shortly after when they realized their hard fork would cause a chain split and that they would not be able to claim that their new shitcoin is the real bitcoin.

All these people were subsequently were very pissed off they couldn't control the network, which they thought they were entitled to. Some ragequit, others created a bunch of shitcoins out of spite, Roger went on to spearhead BCH as the real Bitcoin, all these fools realized they might as well make some money off of it, everyone went all-in on the shitcoin casinos after that. The "small blockers" eventually went on to evolve into the Bitcoin Maximalists and cypherpunks that today tell you to run your own node and own your own keys.


Lmao, yeah that is always helpful.


erikcason

I like to talk about bitcoin and philosophy.

https://store.bitcoinmagazine.com/products/cryptosovereignty


It’s hard to understand or understate just how deep the trauma of living in modernity carries. To be born generations after The Death of God and the closure of any forms of life outside or beyond the mechanization of economics, is to acknowledge the very real, deep, and painful truth that we have been betrayed by our parents and left worse off then they were. It is the deepest and most painful betrayal as we were suppose to be give a life for ourselves and a future of our own, which they sacrificed for their own greed and avarice which had doomed most people to a life just beyond poverty. It is sickening to know that things are worse for our generation than it was for our parents and that they not only betrayed us economically, but politically and spiritually as well. It is a lot to take in when you really look at it, and it is painful to see how we were betrayed.


It’s all / everything


More effective in capturing eyeballs and the brain cycle


Man, twitter just fucking blows and pretty much is just showing me snuff, porn, and memes that make me hate humanity (but love animals).

I probably should just delete that shit and move on with my life in a meaningful capacity.


This looks legit, glad to see you are expanding what you are working on 🤣


Because the state cultivates, encourages, and integrates corporatism into itself and directly sponsors competition against small-scale producers specifically to destroy them as it’s easier to control and sponsor corporations rather than people. So imho the state is to blame, rather than corporations which are doing what comes naturally to them.


The state hates you and wants you to live in fear and terror so they can control your entire life. From cradle to grave the state demands being involved in every facet of life in order to create the greatest robbery that could ever be conceived: to rob you of your divinity and direct relationship with the divine to believe that you are nothing more than matter. Just another cog of flesh. They don’t want you to remember that you don’t need their permission or anyone else’s but your own. They don’t want you to remember the truth that you hold in your secret heart of heart that you’ve always know; but you’ve been brainwashed since birth to forget and suppress beyond all other forms of knowledge. That you are a divine empowered being who can change the world and need no one’s permission to do that.


Meh, this is far from a pop concert, a lot closer to something like burning man.


Fuck yeah, we’ll make it happen


One of the funniest things about going to music festivals is that they are clearly spiritual and religious rituals that have been lobotomized of their base meaning. Yet somehow have still reactualized themselves in modernity with this secret encrypted at their heart and still offer people the same benediction that prior religious festivals before have offered—mainly a path of transcendence awakening through the combination of drugs, community, and celebration. While debased and inverted from its previous means, in the transcendental awakening it provides, it unveils why the secrets of this initiation are held in such a way, and why such an experience must be offered in such a way.


#Bitcoin is the Quantum Messiah. ✙✛✝☦☨♰♱☥✠⚜


That’s a great term that I’m going to appropriate. 🙏


Whoops! Mixed up the cigarettes and spliffs this morning.

Guess it’s gonna be one of those days.


The Romance of Bitcoin

Bitcoin really is the greatest romantic story of all playing out right in front of us, and hardly anyone notices just how extraordinary epic it is.

The story of a lone man with a love for humanity that is so great that he would choose to sacrifice not only the greatest fortune that has ever been created, but that the very substance of who he is—his identity itself—all just to give us the choice to be free. It is an inspiring epic that ask for each of us to rise to the task of what it would mean to truly love humanity and allow for the choice of such a freedom to come from only us, rather to live in the world of fiat darkness where the agency and power of man is something to be feared and caged in.

Now having been given the tools of personal liberation and self-soverginty, Satoshi loved us all enough to ask us the question if we also love ourselves enough to take on the task of what it means to enact the liberation that can only come from us through the empowerment of bitcoin. It ask from each of us not only to engage in the action of self-care in such a dramatic and empowering way that not only does it transform our existence from the plainness of everyday life that is the lackluster mechanization of everyday, but to show the world as an example of what such a love for all human would look like enacted in the day-to-day. It is not a life of the robust power and dictation of the state recreated anew, but a new form-of-life to free all people everywhere for the rest of time from such restrictions towards what it would really mean to be free.

Bitcoin is not about getting rich, making money, or even creating self-soverginty for ourselves; but is about loving the whole of humanity with such passion and conviction that not only will I be free, but so will everyone who truly understands what the love of bitcoin really is. A love for the freedom of humanity and infinite agency that comes from the soul of each and every individual who is now allowed to hold their wealth outside and beyond the view of any agency, body, ideal, or state in order to be something for each of us on its own. It is a love that can only actualize with the love, respect, and dignity that comes with understanding what the deepest purpose of bitcoin truly is. It is the secret that all Bitcoiners know and hold in their hearts, and it is from this dream of a better world and what the love of one another is, that we can truly change what is happening to our world together. No only for our people, but for the space that can only be reserved for the future ones that are loved before the arrive. This is so we may bow to them with reverence, dignity, and grace to say, “We have save this for you, and for only you.”

This romance for the human species and the kind of power and agency that we can each find within ourselves as a locus of control against a world that seeks to control everything is messianic insofar that it truly has the power to change everything. Only from the black of night that is the darkness of fiat, and the seeming end of man as a creature of infinite creativity, power, and agency; do we find the means to once again become the people that only we are capable of.

And as will all great romantic stories, the drama and tragedy that tells this tale of the most epic and extreme circumstances. For if bitcoin is not to succeed in this mission to liberate humanity from the bondage of debt slavery, financial surveillance, infinite fiat printing; that we will surrender the very fabric of what it means to be human to a dead and calculating machine of statism and its endless demand to control everything. It will only be love, love in the greatest, most astounding, bombastic envisioning that the world has ever seen that will save us from what is coming.

The electrification of consciousness that comes from bitcoin allows for the jumpstarting of sincere thinking not just as a form of logic, but as a means of achieving the ethics of what love is. This understanding of the praxis of love as a form of life allows for people to come to understand and see what fiat money really is under the imperialism of statism, and what that has cost us all. How dearly we have paid for this kind of money, this form of life, and this kind of economic machine that is not only divorced from the true care of all people everywhere, but has worked against them in such a way that very few can see the possibility of an exit at all.

This is why love and the understanding of what it is beyond a mere feeling and into an ethical praxis is of the greatest and most astounding purpose of bitcoin. It demonstrates that there is no price, no fiat value, no economic quantification towards what the freedom of the individual can truly mean. For man is not a cog in a machine from which his worth can be calculated, as a soul is not an engine with inputs and outputs, but is the infinite mysterious empowerment which secretly resides within each of us, and from which any person may achieve infinity. Together, we can choose to create a new world, one that is free from the rot and despair of fiat money and what it has robbed us of; but only if we choose the most radical form of love that chooses to vanquish the power and control of money from the hands of others, and back into our own.


'No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes.'

Hannah Arendt

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#wisdom #philosophy #psychology #spirituality #poetry #art #surrealism #psychedelic #dream #midjourney


But, but my history professor and all of the movies have shown me otherwise!


Didn’t you see Mr. BBQ’s necklace? Seems like the new imperialist government is doing exactly what they want.


The first time I read him it was a random book my aunt had on her bookshelf that she got somewhere and didn’t know about it. I overflow with joy at each new line I read knowing that there had been intelligent people before me who saw and understood the state for what it was. What a glorious joy such a discovery was for me!


Take your pick


The people who can legally use violence against me


I just hate so much that government agencies empower people that are arguably mentally handicapped to have power over me.

I just wanna be left alone.


Small farmers will lead the next wave of bitcoin adoption.

They have been the only group I’ve consistently orangepilled because they understand the value proposition of a money that cannot be seized and is deflationary by its nature. nostr:note1pwzyxkdvp895llm4z93hjptuaf0p5k9rlvrlav2afhmjper34ulsswemlt


Bitcoin Black Mirror: not a prediction or financial advice, this is for entertainment purposes only

Bitcoin moons to 690,420 cuck bucks, the FED pulls the liquidity rug. Jerome starts QT’ing to the max as congress balances the budget.   Banks fail, grandmas retirement goes poof, they let loose the hounds of media propaganda. Bitcoin is blamed for financial crisis 2.0.

 On Friday the 13th 13% of us get black bagged and deposited in the nearest volcano while the rest of y’all get sent to the gulag for forced labor (hand knitting rainbow colored polyester covid face masks for dogs).

Meanwhile they 6102 the ETFs and close all on-ramps while criminalizing math and other stuff.

As the price nukes, Peter Schiff and Kramer both flip bullish at the same time thus condemning humanity to 1000 years of darkness.

The cascading collapse continues apace.

 nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx gets a haircut and starts buttoning all his buttons.
 nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m starts showing emotion on a daily basis.
Craig Wright is recognized as the world’s foremost expert in samurai sword fighting.  nostr:npub1z4m7gkva6yxgvdyclc7zp0vz4ta0s2d9jh8g83w03tp5vdf3kzdsxana6p and  nostr:npub1j8y6tcdfw3q3f3h794s6un0gyc5742s0k5h5s2yqj0r70cpklqeqjavrvg are his two star pupils and become bitter rivals as the vie for his attention and praise.
 nostr:npub1dergggklka99wwrs92yz8wdjs952h2ux2ha2ed598ngwu9w7a6fsh9xzpc changes his name to Ffs and forsakes his green suit for his birthday suit. Privacy be damned.
 nostr:npub1a2cww4kn9wqte4ry70vyfwqyqvpswksna27rtxd8vty6c74era8sdcw83a and  nostr:npub1s5yq6wadwrxde4lhfs56gn64hwzuhnfa6r9mj476r5s4hkunzgzqrs6q7z start a paid group offering inside scoops on the next hot NFT project.
 nostr:npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe starts a hot air balloon tourism company as he daily extolls the benefit’s of inflation to the masses.
 nostr:npub1rtlqca8r6auyaw5n5h3l5422dm4sry5dzfee4696fqe8s6qgudks7djtfs goes back to school for an MBA and becomes an accountant.

 nostr:npub1hk0tv47ztd8kekngsuwwycje68umccjzqjr7xgjfqkm8ffcs53dqvv20pf runs for office.
 nostr:npub1nw5vdz8sj89y3h3tp7dunx8rhsm2qzfpf8ujq9m8mfvjsjth0uwqs9n2gn's fuzzy hair falls out revealing that his skin is actually green.  He stops believing.

 nostr:npub1az9xj85cmxv8e9j9y80lvqp97crsqdu2fpu3srwthd99qfu9qsgstam8y8 starts making calculators.

 nostr:npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft stops working altogether.
 nostr:npub1guh5grefa7vkay4ps6udxg8lrqxg2kgr3qh9n4gduxut64nfxq0q9y6hjy finally starts zapping but no one cares.
 nostr:npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s and  nostr:npub180cvv07tjdrrgpa0j7j7tmnyl2yr6yr7l8j4s3evf6u64th6gkwsyjh6w6 get jobs at Facebook and really enjoy the free lunches and other perks.
 nostr:npub1rxysxnjkhrmqd3ey73dp9n5y5yvyzcs64acc9g0k2epcpwwyya4spvhnp8 pivots to making videos explaining how to pair your wifi printer to your laptop over tor.
  nostr:npub153xmex42x4chdf757hp3q6zxagykkek7pdgwuwd074964dkyha9s82ryu8 renounces Creed and starts brewing kombucha
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 nostr:npub1ejvhdkt8ppefezgz0sgnwdqrn8l4z8muws2k8dz2tv0a57ac2z9st56q8x goes vegan.
 nostr:npub1w69ya7xs697hk3hky3gllryz8rwverfa0ylz89chf9qnhfcskc2s64zltw is the last daily active user utilizing nostr

The world gradually then suddenly slips into the abyss and a million years later aliens are befuddled at the only remains of a brief dream of a bright orange future:

a stash of 21 bright orange plastic hand grenades with a strange symbol on them buried in what used to be  nostr:npub1lrjgpa9m2dl6esdah5pq7m005ymwh4glq4aet76q2zlz2f83esfsa2zvrj backyard with a bunch of random words inside…


Through creating a character that we only know as this amorphous, pseudonymous, non-physical ‘person’—the idea that is Satoshi Nakamoto—and his great work of art that he introduced into the world—Bitcoin—Satoshi was really telling a much greater story about wealth, life, and power in the arc of human history.
-- Erik Cason  nostr:npub1hk0tv47ztd8kekngsuwwycje68umccjzqjr7xgjfqkm8ffcs53dqvv20pf


Everyone has their own reasons why they are here. Me? I'm sick of feeding the machine with my soul.


GM $72k


Proof of stake doesn’t work.
It literally doesn’t work.
It does *no* work.
 - nostr:npub1hk0tv47ztd8kekngsuwwycje68umccjzqjr7xgjfqkm8ffcs53dqvv20pf

#BitcoinTwitter
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You did your part, no need to send the sats, but I appreciate the thought.


Doing my part to subvert the State 💪 https://image.nostr.build/881c66a89750e89fff3e91127f6bbc73d1d5dbc280fe992985874b2a55bcbf20.jpg  nostr:note164skrl8fc6t9sfe0jl78ck0xfevgsa0pqlz38yadl20h0w4u70zq4zrf7x


Gonna see you at Bitcoin Alive next month?


Soon I will be with my people ❤

The trauma of being in clownworld with normies and NPCs for the last month makes it all the sweeter too.


You will be missed!


Alright 3.5 more hours crammed in a sky tube and then I’m done for the week.


I came here for freedom money, not for financial gain. Over the past 12+ years I have watched Bitcoin 12000x vs USD, and it blows my mind every time this happens. Even after all these years. Maybe I still haven't accepting the reality of it all.

Many of us were told over and over that we were making a terrible decision, or that we were idiots for investing in "tulips." Ridiculed and laughed at constantly. Not just by strangers, but by family and friends.

They were wrong.

Not only did we make a good decision, we made one of the greatest decisions in recent history. We had the conviction, the nerve, and of course the autism, to do what we thought was right while everyone else doubted.

Many of us were freaks & weirdos for most of our lives. Let's be honest - most of us probably still are. But we're the weirdos with motherfucking conviction. We're the freaks willing to put it all on the line for a belief, because maybe there's still something worth hoping and fighting for in this clown world.

We were right.

You can stay humble while you stack sats tomorrow. Today you pat yourself on the back. You text your brother with an "I fucking told you so." You look at yourself in the mirror and smile at a motherfucking winner.


See y’all in Madeira tomorrow!


And nostr:npub154zhxs4d8u36vzt7g53m2x42sgsfaxuhnptemzvcz9hcjc4ry0lqmtunck


People are going to exploit the absolute shit out of them and make a killing doing it.


I mean, at least over at CB we totally did fuck it up, like a bunch of times. I sometimes stand in awe of just how much bitcoin we accidentally destroyed with absolutely dumbass ideas.


nostr:npub1qex7yjtuucs6ac49kjujdgytrjsphn5a4pdscu2w3qlprym4zsxqfz82qk is probably the only person I can think of who has handled greater volumes of bitcoin than me.


I sometimes stand baffled at thinking about how many bitcoins passed through my hands as a support manager at coinbase from 2013- 2017.


I cherish the camaraderie we share in having been through all of those personal struggles we share, even though we didn’t know each other at the time and the solidarity we also shared in having been in the trenches together early on, again, even though we didn’t know each other then. Even though we were on different fronts, in different theaters of war, all the struggles were the same.

Feels good to be on this side of the struggle now and to know we are winning.


TBH I get a deep sense of nihilism when the price goes up this fast. It’s mostly having the face ripped off of how superficial and fleeting our generalize pricing mechanisms are, and how hypnotized we all are within this system of ‘value’.

Bitcoin has always been worth this much (and much more!), we are just waiting for the rest of the world to see it too. It almost like I feel ashamed of knowing that I’ve been right all along and haven’t thrown down even hard, and been even more insistent about what we are doing.


My son asked how all of the miniature places were built at the mini golf course, and I told him they were built by gnomes enslaved and liquidated during the holocaust.

If you don’t know about this, it’s because big education and MSM don’t want you to know about it.


At SFO and I’ve honestly seen hundreds of people with masks on. You’d think it was March 2020 here.


❤ back at you hommie.


…probably nothing.


https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-vallis/episodes/Hodl-Hang-10-w-Cason--Breedlove--American-Hodl-e2cm38p

Listening to this episode again because hodl hang is a quarterly pod.  I need more of this fellas.  nostr:npub1rtlqca8r6auyaw5n5h3l5422dm4sry5dzfee4696fqe8s6qgudks7djtfs nostr:npub1hk0tv47ztd8kekngsuwwycje68umccjzqjr7xgjfqkm8ffcs53dqvv20pf nostr:npub15vzuezfxscdamew8rwakl5u5hdxw5mh47huxgq4jf879e6cvugsqjck4um nostr:npub1cqm6dztalp4l6n04f9k20c333xftgangjla337736dr6faz9na0qf2hjec


WHERE ARE THE FLATIRONS!?!?


I will be presenting on my book Cryptosovereignty at the book corner at Bitcoin Atlantis in Maderia at 4:30pm on March 1st.

I may just do a reading of a chapter or a presentation of the larger metaphysical project that Cryptosovereignty is.

I’ll have physical books for sale, see you there!


[Why does NFT art have to be so bad?]
 Because it’s not art, it’s just kitsch garbage.

It is specifically low-brow, degenerate tastes of extremely poor production quality, technique, thought and skill to very poorly mimic real art. This is done specifically to masquerade as a veblen good for people stupid enough to buy this charade and will think they can pass it off again as ‘art’ to other unfortunate souls who may think they are talented enough to to beat the MLM scheme that pretty much all of these are.

Most digital ‘art collectors’ are of too poor of taste, too stupid, or much more likely they are simply degenerate ‘art collectors’ who have found a parasitic niche to pumping and dumping these nauseating JPEGs which obviously and readily insult the very name that is art, and pull it deeper into banality and stupidity that insults the very concept of art.

It’s too bad, as inscriptions provide an extremely powerful tool of communication on top of the most powerful censorship resistant network in the world…and people want to use it for fucking pump and dumps.

It’s fucking gross.

I challenge anyone who calls themselves an artist who is involved with any of this to raise themselves to the challenge of producing real art. So far outside of Project Spartacus and a few select others—I have see no art—just the degenerate degradation of art towards the nihilistic hell these autist wish to shove it into for a few sats.

The only save grace of all of this is that these idiots make it seem so stupidly innocuous and useless they provide cover for the much more radical tooling that I believe will develop in time.

We will just have to wait and see if real artist start using it to produce real art with it—only time will tell. Until then I will continue to cringe in despair and vertigo each time I see this kind of trash.


THE MAP IS NOT THE TERRITORY nostr:note16mjm5elhnw73ywwlt4j5fnrmewyc3an8f3r4rdvml366m7ppmaesvrarq9


Today my son learned an important lesson:

Sometime we poop our pants 🤷


I find this essay is helpful in framing how I look at it:

https://itself.blog/2020/04/15/giorgio-agamben-a-question/


If you do the same things everyone else is doing you will get the same results.

You know how mocked and derided I was back in 2015 for putting all of my money into bitcoin?

Everyone I knew was making fun of me both to my face and behind my back.

The things I was doing at that time were just too outside the norm for most people to comprehend.

I was weird to them.

Moral of the story?

You wanna get ahead. Prepare to do some weird shit and be ostracized for it.

Endure a decade of mockery and then have the last laugh.


Ironically and poetically, it seems that now using linguistic critique of Hegelian dialects through cryptography offers us a new direction in ‘governance’.

Funny stuff.


There is a lot of suspicious evidence that it was otherwise.


More and more I am thinking about how wokism is just one prong of a much larger planned attack on all of humanity for total control of all people everywhere, forever. This is why it seems to involve almost everything—food, culture, family, money, economy, technology, language and thought itself. All of it seems to be to induced a kind of personal, communal, and societal weakness that demands a total subservience to the state and its transglobal corporate allies. This produces a crisis which we are told people cannot solve, but only states. This then allows for a new form of technological global communism under CBDCs from which there will be no escape.

There is a reason wokism came up with the COVID lockdowns, why fiscal policy went nuts with COVID, and why COVID ‘started’ in China. It’s seems that this was the beginning of the final stage of the grand scheme to unwind the global political order to transition it from being western dominated to eastern.

Furthermore there seems to be a strong relationship between woke ideology and social media usage in order to expose and expound these principles not through direct experiences, but Pavlovian exposure to such ideas. It is a Maoism form of attack that allows for one to be accused and letting the social media apparatus destroy them simply from those accusations, rather than real institutions of jurisprudence.

It’s seems that the next wave of this attack is modifying history and social context directly using closed-source AI models to change history, “those who control the present control the past, and those who control the past control the future.” This is why 2+2 = 5 under wokism. It is no longer about the relationship to truth anymore, but only towards what we have been told is true. In short, it is the final move of ‘fiat’ (by decree) to liquidate the process, or proof-of-work that must always be in relationship to truth.

Ironically as these sorts of agendas are being pushed, they are snapping a significant portion of the population into a consciousness awakening from the hypnosis of wokism and all of the deranged shit going on.

The powers that be never really expected us to wake up from the deep sleep we have been in for generations, nor did they expect us to expropriate and invert the tools of control they us against us into new weapons of personalize defense. It is both poetic and providential in what it says about humanity in our day and age, and about the coming revolutionary days that will define the next millennium.


Yep, this will be a big part of it, and will likely be how we get a bunch of sub-nostrs that will cater to all kinds of different tastes and people. One big social network doesn’t make much sense unless it’s loosely federated.


It’s hypnosis and brain-cycles. It’s the same reason I want a cigarette even though they taste like shit, give me a headache, and when I finish I think, “I didn’t even like that..”

It’s a form of emotional abuse.


I’m just in ‘send it’ mode 😜


One day we will be free from the clutches of corporate influences and government surveillance online. It will be a beautiful world that we built together that will not have the walled gardens of the past, and will be FOSS for all.

We will have to work to understand our algorithms, and to know just how to tweak and work with them to find what we need, but it will be a power that is far and beyond anything other peoples have experienced before. Together we will use these new tools and forms of organizing to create the political structure of the future.

Not for another oscillation in the cycles of revolution that will just create another structure of power and abuse; but to truly free ourselves from it for good. Finally with the power of cryptography we can finally own something through knowledge alone. No long can the force of might and violence overpower any individual who hodls their keys as a sacrosanct, and dignifies it as the gracious power that it truly is.

The world is already well on its way, and with tools like torrents, Bitcoin and Nostr they are already being built. One day when we are free we will look back upon these dark times, and realize how close we were to losing, and how powerful our enemies really were. It will only be in the final struggle when these systems of old implode and collapse upon themselves will we really learn how far reaching they really were, and how much power they really were exercising behind the scenes.

We will win, not because it is written or foretold, but because what we are doing is right.

This is for our children and future ones that are to come. To those who we have promised ‘you will be free and far beyond powerful in way that I could never understand, and for that, we have reserved this for you, and for you alone. It is not for my people, or any people to take from you.’


Honest to god, I scroll through Nostr, and I think to myself,

“Wow, thoughtful unique posts from accounts and people that I care about. I feel good reading through my feed and feel like that was worthwhile.”

All other forms of social media will be destroyed by this—it’s just too damn good versus the abusive eyeball catching, click driving modules that are absolutely broke and hate you.

Good. I cannot wait to watch those shitheaps burn. nostr:note18jwr2093rxtyx5n3y6uflymvcpl3pchsy7l8l7h3jumzws28khks2e9arn


He probably wouldn’t even remember this but at nostr:npub1key55ax33gkl50uqemvl4khrtqrhzm7wzpc7fhseutt5ddkcwcrqgxlt3h around this time last year after a What Bitcoin Did Live it was my first time at an Bitcoin event like this, was recording a WBD pod the next day, some OG’s were in the room and I still felt a bit like an “outsider” as this progressive/left guy trying to kick it with bitcoiners.

Some people online had been really shitty to me (yeah I know it’s the internet). I didn’t know if I could be as public as I wanted to in the space. But Hodl was so freaking nice and we chatted about how bitcoin is for everyone, and about real progressive values, anti-war, and how if people say someone like me can’t be in bitcoin they can fuck off and that they just want people who are different from them to be poor.

That night meant a lot to me. Anyway +1 on his message, I’m here too if anyone needs. Hodl’s a real one. nostr:note1zzhwfm70kvksvsktwx0fjlnv4y9fc5vqhggq389eek9agk5u0naqcnhy9a


Pretty sure they are still gonna black bag me for this, but hey, we gotta start somewhere. nostr:note1079vrravff829f8pmwmc5aleqc8r40qdsc7ae2drrzh0ad2tvugs6cq9q2


“Hard things are hard.”

This has been my mantra for awhile. Sometimes just acknowledging what you are doing sucks, and you would rather be doing something else, but you won’t, because doing this hard thing is important, is helpful.

Keep doing hard shit hommies, because it’s not going to get easier, but learning to live with it,deal with it, and do it can get easier. nostr:note1zzhwfm70kvksvsktwx0fjlnv4y9fc5vqhggq389eek9agk5u0naqcnhy9a


Wen drafts?

Plz Nostr devs, all I have our my strings of ADHD thoughts… without drafts I can only get half-asses hip shot notes out.


Bitcoin is the consciousness awakening that has us understand that we can use cryptography as a tool to liberate ourselves from the digital slavery we have all found ourselves captured within.

Only by understanding its praxis will we escape from the powerlessness of our politics.


Man…twitter is becoming absolutely deranged. I seriously question why I even look at it anymore between the surprise porn, violence, or emotional abuse all designed for eyeballs and clicks.

It’s pretty wild to see that this whole model is starting to eat itself. Glad we have an alternative like this, and I’m excited to see where it goes.


To be sovereign involves the greatest form of self care that there is; a responsibility for both your future self, and your future community, which means an intimacy and knowledge of the tools which allow for you to be free to make choices that direct the future. Both bitcoin and nostr are the most powerful tools we have in that quest for self-care. nostr:note1vwd4fvq6v799nmh53550vnjl05gc5yk6u72m3zjcnuzacl7gcs7qja8aw3


The first time I learned that it was a real political theory I glitched out, “How TF is it possible to have a politics based around no rules?!?!” I thought.


I love that anarchist movements (and there by bitcoin) is just a collection of freaks of all sorts of colors, backgrounds, and identities that refuse to go along with the flow and demand the tools to empower themselves, rather than looking for handouts, government protections or privileges.

No Gods, no masters, no gatekeepers, no limits!


You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make it drink.

While I think Francis may be right in some respects, I’m actually finding that going toward the consciousness awakening aspects of bitcoin seems to be shocking people to attention.

It’s not about the money, but about power. When you can show people how fiat in whatever form is used to control people in a variety of ways, they start to wake up to what’s really happening. When you can then connect that to how Bitcoin is a tool of self-empowerment and a counter to fiat as a power; that seems to start to wake people up.

However me stating all of this is some white man’s burden kinda shit, frankly I don’t know the culture or struggle in Africa, so I can’t really say. I’ve just found this is my most recent path towards success with orangepilling folks.


Libertarianism today just means statist-lite; which frankly gives one the worse aspects of statism. In many ways it is like an inversion of the concept of minarchism.

If one truly believes in the principles of traditional classical liberalism, they will inevitably end up as an anarchist, as the state simply cannot respect individual rights or their autonomy.


I always get that wrong 😳


I honestly can’t get over how nice and homily the experience of Nostr is versus that of X. It is clearly from how the algorithms are now squeezing everyone in the final phase of eyeballs and brain cycles to achieve meaningless clicks based off of rage, anger, and generally negative emotional experiences.

It’s pretty scary to think about and realize that there is no one at the wheel, and the raw emotion experience you may be having is there for the free exploitation of the banality that is advertising. In someways I wish this evil had a greater cause or originality; but as evil always is, it is simply banal as it is not the product of thought, but rather the real product of the incapacity of thought.


nostr:npub1cqm6dztalp4l6n04f9k20c333xftgangjla337736dr6faz9na0qf2hjec we gonna do one while we are in Maderia? nostr:note16me3nww6zhv03u8v2xct8j9v25z0mt3dqkdcs84c395s5y83cyvqdwtjf9


Got another big storm coming through and needed to get a sump pump installed under the house, but was feeling a lot of resistance to doing it. I was complaining to my 9 y/o son who proceeded to tell me,

“We’ll, you made me do my homework and I didn’t want to do it, but when I was done I was happy it was out of the way, so I’m gonna make you do that so you’ll be happy tomorrow when it’s raining hard and it won’t be flooding under the house.”

So he held the light for me while I crawled around under the house and got it all situated, and helped me run the hose out so that now we should be all square.

It was just a really nice moment with my son that I never shared anything like that with my dad, so it just felt really nice to know that my family can really be a mode of support and motivation for me that I never really got to experience as a child. Having a family is a nice way to get to rewrite those kinds of experiences for ourselves in meaningful and wholesome ways like that.


Everyone needs a good nostr:npub1hk0tv47ztd8kekngsuwwycje68umccjzqjr7xgjfqkm8ffcs53dqvv20pf #bitcoin rant ⬇

https://fountain.fm/clip/d46uNciMLIcIW9c0Mbr4


Omg Cryptosoverignty is finally on LibGen!!🥳🥳

THANK YOU TO WHOEVER UPLOADED IT


Thanks for letting me know


I honestly think this is the only way now.


States should utilize the Article 5 clause of the U.S. Constitution to ratify a new amendment.

This would allow for state legislatures ALONE to amend the constitution directly WITHOUT the need for any kind of federal approval of any kind.

https://constitutioncenter.org/the-constitution/articles/article-v


This reality is just getting so stupid that it’s pretty overwhelming.


“If you take away the state’s monopoly over the means of economic interaction, then you take away one of the three principal ingredients of the state. In the model of the state as a mafia, where the state is a protection racket, the state shakes people down for money in every possible way. Controlling currency flows is important for revenue-raising by the state, but it is also important for simply controlling what people do...”

— Julian Assange (Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet)


nostr:npub1hk0tv47ztd8kekngsuwwycje68umccjzqjr7xgjfqkm8ffcs53dqvv20pf #btc #perfection https://image.nostr.build/2414646a6cd1f05d2885914a58d43a64073399c780643f8e10e6e9066c51cc76.jpg


The bitcoin gospel #btc #cryptosovereignty nostr:npub1hk0tv47ztd8kekngsuwwycje68umccjzqjr7xgjfqkm8ffcs53dqvv20pf https://image.nostr.build/ee0ab6ddd07b6f05086377b09ec52911eca969a5b62487458e0a912ae52af299.jpg


I just watched HodlHang9 https://youtu.be/lMZ2JOHjslY?si=4uXUgoWKHxyHTkFV and it's so amazing that I have to give it my highest recommendation and express my heartfelt gratitude. It's like being in a room with the brightest minds in Bitcoin, yet it feels as intimate and friendly as a chat with close friends.

Two moments in this episode really struck a chord with me:

1. nostr:npub15vzuezfxscdamew8rwakl5u5hdxw5mh47huxgq4jf879e6cvugsqjck4um  Insightful Moment (48:10): When Robert delves into the 'false dichotomy of left and right' and our power to redefine meanings, it's not just insightful – it's transformative. The conversation elevates to an entirely new level of depth and understanding.
2. nostr:npub1hk0tv47ztd8kekngsuwwycje68umccjzqjr7xgjfqkm8ffcs53dqvv20pf  Poetic Freeze (2 hr 10mins 56secs) Erik ends his beautiful channeled rant from a higher dimension, it’s like a Bitcoin poem that ends with "ONLY YOU CAN DO IT," And then his Zoom freezes.

It's as if the universe itself is highlighting the importance of his words. It's a magical and memorable moment. Please check it out, it genuinely feels special.

A huge shoutout to all four HodlHangers: Robert, Erik, nostr:npub1cqm6dztalp4l6n04f9k20c333xftgangjla337736dr6faz9na0qf2hjec  and AmericanHODL. Your discussions are enlightening, helping me learn more about #Bitcoin and, importantly, more about myself. Thank You

Below is a transcription of Erik’s Bitcoin Poem!

“…..Some things that I see is like this totally new paradigm

 like what I do see it having corollaries to it is……..

 …….an individual having a true transcendental experience that converts them. Because after that conversion, there's a radical new perspective of the world that allows for it to be totally different!

 Yet somehow the same. And it's interesting because there's a passage from Walter Benjamin where he talks about what the world looks like after the eschaton.

He says, everything is exactly the same but slightly different; and that's one of the things about Bitcoin……….

It’s that, all of the same things that seemed so maniacal and hateful and destroying of humanity, there's now this strange little inversion that can happen where, just like how bitcoin is a trap door out of the bottom of hell. It Changes that perspective!

 And it allows for an ability for us to actually  rescue ourselves from the circumstances.

And to me……..  like this is the most important part……

It’s that like, very similar to the religious conversion……..

ONLY YOU CAN DO IT!”


Latest Hodl Hang now up on YouTube.

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https://youtu.be/Tjz06aZ9VZA?si=49ait2m_hCD0a_rG


I’ve got a damn bear and mountain lion stalking around my property. Last night when taking out the compost I also ran into the damn bear. He was out on the dirt road next to my property trying to find a way into the orchard—about 20 feet away when I noticed him. Never had something look at me in a predatory way like that before. I slowly backed away the 30 feet back to the house to get another light and bear spray.

Earlier this year I found the remains of a deer along with mountain lion scat in the orchard. Rural living has some risks, but at least I know they’ll kill me if they get a good chance.


I don’t specifically go into that, but lump it in with the rest of crypto


Hodl Hang #10 w/ nostr:npub1hk0tv47ztd8kekngsuwwycje68umccjzqjr7xgjfqkm8ffcs53dqvv20pf nostr:npub15vzuezfxscdamew8rwakl5u5hdxw5mh47huxgq4jf879e6cvugsqjck4um nostr:npub1rtlqca8r6auyaw5n5h3l5422dm4sry5dzfee4696fqe8s6qgudks7djtfs

https://fountain.fm/episode/GN8dCvKvfiFLdDTTT80D


The Stories We Tell, Episode 5

nostr:npub1hk0tv47ztd8kekngsuwwycje68umccjzqjr7xgjfqkm8ffcs53dqvv20pf , author of Cryptosovereignty, joined me to talk about his involvement in the early days of Occupy Wall Street, how he found out about bitcoin while he was there, and the stories he's been telling ever since.

Watch here on YouTube: https://youtu.be/O1OBfJiGdY4?si=Cs2ChjFQnk1jRbel

Or listen on Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/KHoaQngchRwnXsfVGg9X


Good days

There are some days that are just made to be good days.

Today was one of those days that God seems to have reserved just for giving to me. I’m sometimes so overwhelmed at how beautiful some of the most basic aspects of life can be, and I feel truly blessed for the life I have. I need to remember days like this so when there is a bad one, or a string of bad ones—or if it even seems that there are only bad ones left—I need to remember what the truth of being is, and how glorious it is that it could be nothing.

Somehow, some way, there is something and not nothing.

So long as we can be, there will always the total possibility of becoming. It is the glorious providence and possibilities that will always be contain in the possibility of becoming good.

The very fact that each new day contains the possibility of becoming, there is always the serendipitous chance, despite all the odds, that it could be good. For a roll of the dice will always abolish chance.

So long as we are being, there will always be the possibility of becoming. And what becoming will always have is the chance and possibility of somehow becoming good.

To remember the good days is to remember the possibility of something becoming good, despite the odds and chances.


why speculate when we can just ask chatgpt

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https://i.nostr.build/2Md5.png


Being a Bitcoiner in normie world is hard. Most people think I’m crazy and I generally have to self-censor most places I go. No one wants to face the reality of what is going on, and how to actually fight it. ‘It too much to think about’ is their rally cry as they escape towards mediocracy.

It’s rare to have conversations with normies that enjoy at all, as they feel so programmed and ignorant of everything going on around them. Challenging their views or asking them to try on a different perspective is rare. They are so brittle, uninspiring, and normal—it seems very sad to me that we all have so much potential and this is all they challenge themselves to be.

I empathize and understand why, but at the same time, I fail to understand the lack of curiosity and the drive to understand things and how the world works.


IMHO this is correct. I call these techniques using cryptographic protocols to increase one’s self-sovereignty, “cryptosovereignty”


Better AI, deeper propaganda, higher price acceleration, and much greater vitriol and hatred on social media and from standard liberals as well.


Thanks for the long and thoughtful reply Geoff. I really appreciate you taking the time to read my book and write out this response. ❤🙏


Things are starting to noticeably accelerate on several fronts.

It’s a bit spooky TBH.


This one is called the Iceberg Hermit, about a guy who shipwrecked in the 16th century and lived with Inuit folks for several years.


Fiat pigs with Orange lipstick

https://m.primal.net/HPub.png


I think a fair amount about why I am doing this (as in working in Bitcoin and educating around it as I see it), and why I don’t just throw it to the win and live my own happy little life.

The truth is that I think if we are not ‘all in’ we may very well lose. And not just bitcoin, but the wider vision of the Cypherpunks, and the possibility of a truly free internet and what that promise would mean to humanity.

I simply cannot walk away. I must do this because I feel morally and ethically obliged to fight fiat on every front available so that the lies may finally be seen by all for what they are: lies.

Damn lies that have pulled the whole of Earth into its nihilism and despair; damning language itself to its collapse and presenting the impossible idea of freedom from the State and its infinite tyranny.

We must win—or all of posterity will be enslaved forever.


My 8-year-old son tonight told me after reading one of my favorite books from childhood for about four hours straight that he loves reading.

That felt really nice.


How Bitcoin Fights Tyranny with nostr:npub1hk0tv47ztd8kekngsuwwycje68umccjzqjr7xgjfqkm8ffcs53dqvv20pf

nostr:npub16le69k9hwapnjfhz89wnzkvf96z8n6r34qqwgq0sglas3tgh7v4sp9ffxj
nostr:npub14mcddvsjsflnhgw7vxykz0ndfqj0rq04v7cjq5nnc95ftld0pv3shcfrlx
🤙

https://fountain.fm/episode/MwfiDJOxKPFa6nmFUpMn


Great synopsis that gets at what I was trying to convey much better. I’m happy this reference was not lost to all, and it warms my heart that it registered for you so well.

You’ll appreciate the chapter where I finish with referencing Bartleby. Thanks for the listen!


Such an activating and powerful talk to end at The Bitcoin Indonesia Conference 🙏🏼🔥🧡
nostr:npub1pkdmq7rfdlr0sthxz2036fqzurg7yl63q93hqeu99dqsfqay5wwscx5jly nostr:npub1hk0tv47ztd8kekngsuwwycje68umccjzqjr7xgjfqkm8ffcs53dqvv20pf 🙏🏼 https://image.nostr.build/0817b27d56287dac181430c966c85ce4b7f3be9c5f12858bec0fd9a11a9f0726.jpg


nostr:npub1r8l06leee9kjlam0slmky7h8j9zme9ca32erypgqtyu6t2gnhshs3jx5dk nostr:npub1hk0tv47ztd8kekngsuwwycje68umccjzqjr7xgjfqkm8ffcs53dqvv20pf nostr:npub18pths84r8rsexu8wpfggxt75u4wefef0706x2wuw2j227mdtueyskyl54s and Anant slamming fiat like there is no tomorrow. Bitcoin is just better. https://image.nostr.build/966cb094a31c5da48b74ea3fce1ac00a7016cc42997ecac15819327c0fc7a5eb.jpg


In the frantic pace of the global conference scene Pacific Bitcoin seems like ancient history already. Since then scenes Amsterdam and Lugano have come and gone, now there is Bali, before long will be Argentina, El Salvador, Nostrasia, Nostrville, an on and on. But I digress…

https://m.primal.net/HOXS.jpg

I'm just an anon bitcoin pleb that’s used to going it alone. Been that way for years. I don't really have any IRL friends who get bitcoin and I've never been much of an evangelist, even for the things I deeply believe in. If anyone brings up the topic I’m happy to give my 2 sats but that rarely happens these days. I tried to orange pill a few friends years ago to no effect and in the end, “If you don't believe me or don't get it, I don't have time to try to convince you, sorry.”

So when circumstances allowed me to attend Pacific Bitcoin I was stoked. Shout out to nostr:npub1j0shgumvguvlsp38s49v4zm8algtt92cerkwyeagan9m6tnu256s2eg9a7 for the ticket hookup. It was my first time attending a bitcoin conference and I'd never been around so many bitcoiners before, so many digital avatars manifested in real life. Many voices that have been planting thoughts and ideas in my brain for years through podcasts, twitter, books, and youtube were there in the flesh–real people after all.

In the whirlwind of it all I didn’t sit through many of the talks in person, preferring to spend my limited there checking things out on the floor and chatting with folks. Shout out to nostr:npub1hk0tv47ztd8kekngsuwwycje68umccjzqjr7xgjfqkm8ffcs53dqvv20pf who I didn’t really know about before. I caught most of his talk and you should too. I haven’t gotten his book yet but I look forward to reading it at some point in the future.

https://youtu.be/MbznlOe9p_0?si=JQdSvt1vLJp5aZA_

#plebchain #pacificbitcoin


I joined Marty Bent to discuss the conflict in the Levant and how the bankers intend to use AI to control your life. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlfZ91Pot-w


Dang I wanted to give you a copy of my book.

I’ll hand it off to some folks I know will be at Nostrasia as I can’t make that one.


The anti christ is rearing its head.   Twitter/X is just a media for us to see it.  After reading your book - I realize that it’s still the world where anons live (until they dox themselves to Elon).   Nostr, meanwhile, is getting stronger and providing anons with far more protection than Elons hellscape.   Nostr is the domicile of the anon seeking Cryptosovereignty.   That’s why I’m here


The bird app is fucking awful and obviously feeding back into hate, bigotry, and violence with all of the gore and porn it’s promoting.

Happy we have each other and a means to stay connected where we are not being barraged with sexual and violent images constantly to keep us trigger, angry, and hurt.


For those of you that have been asking for it Cryptosovereignty is now available as an ebook!

You can find it here:

https://www.amazon.com/Cryptosovereignty-Encrypted-Political-Philosophy-Bitcoin-ebook/dp/B0CKWKJ72P/


My fireside chat with nostr:npub1hk0tv47ztd8kekngsuwwycje68umccjzqjr7xgjfqkm8ffcs53dqvv20pf  at Pacific Bitcoin is, quite tragically, extremely relevant today as the drums of war beat loudly on every media outlet.

https://youtu.be/MbznlOe9p_0?si=D8eNY-AWY9_C8kLT


IMO the smartest people in the world are working on Bitcoin and Nostr. A midwit might say that can’t be true because if they were the smartest, they’d be working on Wall St to make more money. The Ivy engineers at Goldman and Renaissance may have better engines, but what is an engine without a steering wheel?


I love European cities compared to American ones—it’s so refreshing.

Hit me up if you’re chillin in Amsterdam before the bitcoin conference and wanna get a crew together today to chill out and go deep.


#Fiat is war 🤺

#Bitcoin is peace 🫂

Focus on the good in all people and don’t group people in with the actions of a few warmongers. There’s more peace seeking people than war seeking. Enough of the post-ww1 endless wars, let’s come together and rebuild society.

❤🧡💜

#antiwar #love


Protect nostr:npub1hk0tv47ztd8kekngsuwwycje68umccjzqjr7xgjfqkm8ffcs53dqvv20pf at all costs. This level of candor is witheringly rare and increasingly crucial. #pacificbitcoin https://v.nostr.build/mQqx.mov


Whew.

Bitcoin conferences can be really overwhelming. So much social interaction and the enjoyment of it all can really push one to some of their physical and mental limits without realizing it. I always try to just take a bit down time each conference day to just sit and be quiet—it really helps me recharge.


“I FIRST HEARD ABOUT BIT COINS IN 2006 BUT I KNOW THE NSA DID IT, NO POINT IN THAT SCAM.

YOUR TOTAL IS $7.45, SIR.”


I have a theory that the softness of the weather out west is part of what contributed to the decline in America’s culture.

Soft weather makes for soft people—aaand I still love that I live in a place that mostly has great weather, just too bad it contributed to the downfall of civilization.


Better be practicing the biathlon, as that’s how we will strike.


Fuckfaces and retards too.


One of my touch point for understanding bitcoin before it existed was writing a thesis to graduate for college about capital controls during the East Asian financial crisis of 1998. When I understood the bitcoin completely circumvented these controls, a real light bulb went off for me.


@pacbitcoin October 4-8


Yep, once you’ve entered your shipping info you can go into the flow for bitcoin payment with IBEX.


I’ll be signing and selling physical copies of my book Cryptosovereignty at 10am day one at the Pacific bitcoin conference followed by a fireside chat with Tomer Strolight at 11am.

Hope to see y’all there!

https://store.bitcoinmagazine.com/products/cryptosovereignty


I’m grateful you escaped and can enjoy the warmth and quiet.


STAY STRAPPED AND BE HUMBLE nostr:note1rr8v5xqacq7pf8sltp328dspyeqccv7ssdhw5n8fqrvc6v90dszqg3nrtf


GM

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 nostr:npub1hk0tv47ztd8kekngsuwwycje68umccjzqjr7xgjfqkm8ffcs53dqvv20pf


Oof, I feel a bit nauseous when I think about how quickly things will accelerate once the momentum starts.

I just hope we are all ready.


This is why I’ll stick with John Nash being Satoshi. It’s almost so good that a total master of game theory would need to think it up…


I think a fair amount about why I am doing this (as in working in Bitcoin and educating around it as I see it), and why I don’t just throw it to the win and live my own happy little life.

The truth is that I think if we are not ‘all in’ we may very well lose. And not just bitcoin, but the wider vision of the Cypherpunks, and the possibility of a truly free internet and what that promise would mean to humanity.

I simply cannot walk away. I must do this because I feel morally and ethically obliged to fight fiat on every front available so that the lies may finally be seen by all for what they are: lies.

Damn lies that have pulled the whole of Earth into its nihilism and despair; damning language itself to its collapse and presenting the impossible idea of freedom from the State and its infinite tyranny.

We must win—or all of posterity will be enslaved forever.


'The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.'

Hannah Arendt

https://cdn.nostr.build/p/B97n.png
#wisdom #philosophy #psychology #spirituality #poetry #art #surrealism #psychedelic #dream #midjourney


I have some gringo friends that are plugged in pretty deep with Nicaraguan dissident community. This is there good friend I’ve had dinner with a few times:

https://amp.theguardian.com/music/2021/nov/06/meet-the-musician-singing-against-nicaraguas-apocalyptic-regime

They also have a friend who is a journalist who had to flee the country who last I check led was living on their property. Lmk if you’re interested in me connecting you all, as I think Nicaragua would be a great place that you partially could leverage a lot of good for them.


Looking more and more like that’s the way it’s gonna go. I worry about my family, but at least they’ll have a bugout spot with me if the get out in time.


I bet if you announced you were rolling you’d get a lot of ❤❤❤ thrown at you.


It’s so fucking out of hand at this point in time.

My mom and I fight about this almost every time I see her, and it’s just so painful to watch her shove her head in the sand. I imagine this is what talking about ‘contentions’ political issues in China must be like.


Twitter: shitting on people just cuz 😡

Nostr: celebrating each other, just cuz! 😄 nostr:note1c8929ph9zvqvssrq7ss2nrs0qfqauxrsf2zjpsecd5n5y9srqnhqtcfqrh


Dang, my shit is buggy. Now to go find where I can report those…


Honestly, I’m just so grateful for all of this.

I’m a pretty morose guy, so the fact that there is this community of people building the tools of the future in order to ensure that posterity will have a shot at being free means so much to me. I don’t think I could have escaped the darkness that had entrapped before finding bitcoin; and it’s not about the money, but about the ability to simply own something in a world that wants you to own nothing, and be happy about it.


Luke: "what's in there?"

Yoda: "Only what you take with you"

https://v.nostr.build/WwMR.mp4


Yes, we’ve been trained like dogs to quiver and prattle when we have to ask of ourselves what is really truth? Our whole lives we have been taught it’s the right answer (by decree) rather than to question.

Ya gotta get your zaps turned back on so I can zap ya!


I’m coming to terms with the fact that most people are very, very stupid; and it’s not just raw stupidity but mixed with a kind of hubris that makes them blind to anything that asks them to think for themselves. I’m feeling more contempt lately because we are right, and they are smooth brained midwits who are holding everything back.


Fuck I love you man.


I can ⚡ again 😻


“If he’s debanked”

I think you mean when.


Imagine being on the otherside of this with the fascist, communists, and liberals. Committing your life to surveilling, hurting, and suppressing others because of your existential angst of a God-State that hates you with all of its being, and the prattle that forces you to obey.

It is a sad and pathetic life that would not be worth living.


Yep that is the new ones, so I guess it’s just client side. Thanks!


Damus


HODL HANG #9 - #Bitcoin is the (new) solution to the 'meaning crisis'

https://fountain.fm/episode/ZZ5mrpaWzouzy3iBtsZK

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We must use these technologies to free our peoples from the shackles of MSM, the chains of fiat, and the barbarism of statism.

We are the only generation that will be give this opportunity, and we will only get one chance.

Either our children will be radically free, or totally enslaved—there will be no inbetween.


My profile photo and banner isn’t updating.

Please people of nostr, help this retard be a little less retodded.


I’m so relieved that I can say all the crazy shit I want on here and I don’t have to worry about any fascist, nazis, or liberals canceling me for saying shit they don’t like.

What a bunch of authoritarian assholes.


https://store.bitcoinmagazine.com/products/cryptosovereignty

🙏❤


Just retarded


Ok next up i need to add some good relays.

Suggestions my peoples?


Me zaps are back!

⚡💥⚡💥⚡


Hooray! I did it!

Me am smart.


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The Encrypted Political Philosophy of #Bitcoin https://cdn.nostr.build/i/d5ae427281d82d2b9db379670b6a83f09d391212906dec3638646989639f53ba.jpg


Oh yeah? Thanks for reading and if you have any thoughts or feedback I would welcome it. Thanks for reading!


Thank you for your help. I am slow.


I miss zapping.


Black cod quickly seared.


gm #coffeechain from todays commute

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The candyflipping of cyberpunk.